Possui Doutorado em Geografia pela Universidade da Florida-UF, EUA. Mestrado em Ciências Ambientais com área de concentração em Ecossitemas Amazônicos e Dinâmicas Socio-Ambientais, pela Universidade Federal do Pará-UFPA, Belém. Graduação em Ciências Bilógicas Lincenciatura pela UFPA. Biography:Prior to my PhD at UF I studied the eco-physiology of important rainforest trees in the Tapajós National Forest in Brazil?s east-central Amazon, focusing on their resistance to severe drought. This work was part of was a large-scale climate change project funded by NASA to understand the rainforest?s capacity to resist long dry season and perhaps influence on global climate. As an undergraduate student I also worked as a research assistant on a project studying the social and economic dynamics of the commercial logging industry in the Brazilian Amazon?s frontier regions.While obtaining my master?s degree, I also served as part of a NASA-funded team to study the dynamics of land use, land cover change in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, where, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software, satellite thematic imagery, landscape metrics, and field surveys, I calculated changes in land use and land cover to better understand the human context of the expansion of soybean cultivation and its consequences on the Amazon landscape. During my doctoral studies I worked under the guidance of Dr. Robert Walker. My research focused on Socioeconomic and Spatial Changes in the Brazilian Amazon driven by rise of soybean agriculture. Given the interdisciplinary nature of my research portfolio, I combined various analytical tools including: Ethnographic survey, GIS, Remote Sensing and Modeling.
